No contest here. Green Dolphin Street.
What’s not to like as this glossy 19th century costume drama from MGM presents a handsome young man (Richard Hart) sought after by not only Lana Turner but by Donna Reed, as well. The lucky devil doesn’t realize how fortunate he has it.
And, by the way, our research department is hard at work unearthing material about actor Hart, about which we do not know enough.
There’s more than a little foreign intrigue to spice up the romantic entanglements here with a marriage proposal coming in from New Zealand — addressed to the wrong woman. Sorting this out is fun.
This 1947 specimen is MGM melodrama at its finest, sporting a sterling cast that includes the always reliable Van Heflin, Edmund Gwenn (seen above with Lana), Dame May Whitty, Gladys Cooper, Reginald Owen and future Hollywood bad girl, Linda Christian.
And Yellow Sky.
Gregory Peck gets to take off his shirt in this crusty 1948 western. He also gets to squire one of our favorite actresses, Anne Baxter.
Directed by William Wellman, this hardbitten 20th Century Fox oater also features Richard Widmark as a bank robber on the loose who throws in with Peck to take over a ghost town populated by a young woman (Baxter) and her grandfather.
The story is based on a unpublished novel by W.R. Burnett, one of classic Hollywood’s most prolific screenplay writers, which in turn was supposedly inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Take a look.
A colorful week of offerings here at your site. “The Red House” and “Yellow Sky” are now on my list of titles to find.
Anne Baxter is in at least two of your offerings this week. I just looked her up and read her obituary in The Los Angeles Times from Dec., 1985. A reminder that there used to be interesting and well-written articles in the Times, much missed, but also fascinating to read her story. Her quotes in the obit could have been spoken by a more mature, less mean, Eve Harrington. Check it out.
Yellow Sky is a great western. Look for the “Lawman” John Russell. Thanks for the job you are doing.